Pen name Xiao Xiao, Lu Yue, Fu Qing etc.
Sex Female
Birth date 1944-02-23
Birth place Chongqing City
Resident place Haidian District, Beijing City Continue reading
A Beijing court has told journalist Gao Yu that she can continue serving her five-year jail term under a form of house arrest for another year from 26 November but has warned her that she could be sent her back to prison “at any time.”Journalist still under house arrest, cannot receive treatment abroad已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Yu, Health, House Arrest, Journalist
New York, November 28, 2016 – Chinese authorities should immediately release Liu Feiyue, the editor and founder of the human rights news website Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, known in China as Minsheng Guancha, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Liu’s arrest occurred amid increasing efforts by China to silence journalists and bloggers who cover protests and human rights abuses. Continue reading
Editor of human rights news website detained in China已关闭评论
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Tagged Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, CPJ, detention, Hubei province, incommunicado, Liu Feiyue, Minsheng Guancha, subverting state power
To Chair Woman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
Mrs. Kaci Kullmann
Former Chairman
Mr. Thorbjorn Jagland
Dear Mrs. Kullmann,
Dear Mr. Jagland,
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mr. Liu Xiaobo is still kept in prison in China, he is serving his 11 years imprisonment and will not be released till 2020. Continue reading
Tienchi Liao: An empty chair for Liu xiaobo on the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged ceremony, empty chair, Germany, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize, Student, Tienchi Liao
Madeleine Thien Photo: Babak Salari
Even during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, China maintained a symphony orchestra at the behest of Mao’s wife. It’s one of the surprising artifacts of history unearthed in Madeleine Thien’s latest novel, “Do Not Say We Have Nothing,” a rich, sprawling tale centered on tragedies that unfold at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music amid the brutal struggles of that era. Continue reading
Te-Ping Chen: Writing China: Madeleine Thien, ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing’已关闭评论
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Tagged Canadian, Cultural Revolution, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien, Te-Ping Chen, Tiananmen Square
November 25 marks the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This day was chosen to commemorate the brutal murders of three of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroines of the Dominican Republic. On November 25, 1960, Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal and their driver were stopped on the road by members of the secret police force of the dictator Rafael Trujillo and clubbed to death. Continue reading
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 2016已关闭评论
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Tagged International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Women Writers Committee
Adriana Ramirez, Mexican-Colombian nonfiction writer, storyteller, performance poet.
The strongest feeling I had on November 9th was indifference. Continue reading
Writers on the 2016 US Election: Adriana Ramirez已关闭评论
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Tagged Adriana Ramirez, Colombian, Mexican, US Election:
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg recently spent time with China’s leader Xi Jinping, as well as taking time to learn Mandarin. AP
Facebook worked on special software so it could potentially accommodate censorship demands in China, according to a report in the New York Times.
Facebook ‘made China censorship tool’已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, Facebook, internet
